Roches Noires Mosque, Casablanca
Roches Noires Mosque (Arabic: مسجد روش نوار), also known as the Gothic Mosque or Elqods Mosque, and previously known as the Church of Saint Margaret (Église de Sainte Marguerite), is a mosque in Roches Noires, Casablanca, Morocco. It was originally built as a church built in a neo-Gothic style, later converted into a mosque after Morocco's independence.[1]
| Roches Noires Mosque | |
|---|---|
مسجد روش نوار | |
 | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Sunni Islam |
| Location | |
| Location | Roches Noires, Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco |
  Morocco | |
| Geographic coordinates | 33°35′57.8″N 7°35′00.2″W |
| Architecture | |
| Type | Mosque |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Founder | Eugène Lendrat |
| Date established | 1981 (as mosque) |
| Completed | 1920 |
History
The Church of Saint Margaret (Église de Sainte Marguerite) was built by a Frenchman named Eugène Lendrat—the founder of the Roches Noires neighborhood—in 1920,[2] copying a church called Église Saint-Martin de Pau, built in 1860 by Émile Boeswillwald in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.[2]
The Church of Saint Margaret was transformed into a mosque in 1981,[2] at the time of the Moroccanization policies of Hasan II (r. 1961–1999).[3]
References
- شاهد.. كنيسة "روش نوار" التي تحولت إلى مسجد, 2017-06-18, archived from the original on 24 May 2017, retrieved 2018-10-31
- Abir El (2017-12-17). "Vidéo. Casablanca: "Al Qods", de l'église à la mosquée - H24info". H24info. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
- Miller, Susan Gilson (2013). A History of Modern Morocco. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139045834. ISBN 978-1-139-04583-4.
